XOR of two short integers

Question

I am calculating XOR of two short integers using XOR ^ operator in a traditional fashion. Below is the method-

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Answer 1

short s1 = ...
short s2 = ...
short result = (short) (s1 ^ s2);

This is the most efficient way to XOR two shorts together. It does not run into the overhead of creating BigIntegers and the cast will never cause an overflow issue as both s1 and s2 are shorts to begin with.